Friday, September 28, 2018

Wednesday September 26, 2018 Nielsen Finals

CBS took victory in the demo on a very competitive Wednesday, averaging a 1.7/7 rating/share and 6.74 million viewers in primetime. NBC led in viewers (7.67 million) despite ranking fourth in the demo (1.2/6). FOX (1.7/7, 5.37 million) ranked second, and ABC (1.3/6, 4.99 million), third. The season premieres of ABC's three returning Wednesday comedies: 'The Goldbergs' (1.4/7, 5.15 million), 'American Housewife' (1.2/6, 4.4 million), and 'Modern Family' (1.6/7, 5.4 million) provided decent lead-in numbers for the series premieres of both 'Single Parents' (1.3/6, 4.9 million) and 'A Million Little Things' (1.1/5, 5.1 million). On NBC, the new night of all Chicago shows exhibited remarkable compatibility. The night was led by 'Chicago Med' (1.2/6, 7.8 million), then 'Chicago Fire' (1.3/5, 8.1 million), and finally 'Chicago PD' (1.2/5, 7.1 million). Both FOX's 'Empire' (1.9/9, 6.1 million) and 'Star' (1.4/6, 4.6 million) returned on par with their numbers last season, and on CBS, 'Big Brother' (1.7/7, 5.6 million) held all of its 'Survivor' (1.7/7, 7.8 million) lead-in. FX's 'American Horror Story: Apocalypse' led all of Wednesday on the cable side, averaging a 0.92 A18-49 rating with 1.95 million total viewers. The show topped all of cable in women 18-49 (0.98 rating), people 18-34 (0.91), females 12-34 (0.74), and people 25-54 (0.94). Over on Comedy Central, the season premiere of 'South Park' ranked second on cable, notching a 0.66 rating and 1.09 million viewers. 'Park' led all of cable in men 18-49 (0.93 rating) and males 12-34 (0.8). On VH1, 'Black Ink Crew' had a 0.74 W18-49 rating with 1.11 million viewers, and 'Safeword' had a 0.37 in that demo with 542,000 viewers. Elsewhere in female-skewing series, MTV's 'Are You The One?' notched a 0.37 F12-34 rating with 463,000 viewers, while 'Teen Mom OG: Cheaters' was at 0.29 with 427,000 viewers (in W18-49, the two shows were at 0.36/0.34). Also of note on the night was FXX's 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' (0.28 M18-49 rating) which had 312,000 viewers, TBS's 'Full Frontal with Samantha Bee' (0.3 in W18-49/0.29 in M18-49) which had 871,000, and El Rey's 'Lucha Underground' which had 89,000. Broadcast finals: